Albuquerque police officers killed Mary Hawkes, 19, on Monday. Police said she pointed a gun at officers at closer range.Friends said Hawkes was homeless and her parents died when she was a child. Those who knew her said she’s an example of a tragedy that can happen when youth don’t have certain resources available when they need them.VIDEO: Mary Hawkes had criminal historyHawkes had spent time in a Juvenile Detention Center, and friends said she wasn’t able to get the help she needed to get back on her feet and live on her own once she got out. They said she’d sleep in cars to try to survive.“She meant a lot to everybody,” said friend Luchrisa Price. “Anybody that knew her knew she was a great person.”Albuquerque Police Chief Gorden Eden said Hawkes was an auto theft suspect. Police said during a foot chase she pulled a gun on police.An officer then fired, leaving her dead on the sidewalk.VIDEO | Godmother: Mary Hawkes was a deeply caring person“I busted out in tears,” said Price. “I just thought it wasn't fair. She had a long life to live and that wasn't even what was supposed to happen.”Carolina Acuna-Olvera taught Hawkes music at the Juvenile Detention Center and calls herself Hawke’s godmother.“She is my daughter,” Acuna-Olvera said. “She didn't really have any connection with her foster people. She lost both of her parents when she was 8.”Retried Valencia County Judge Danny Hawkes became her foster father.Her close friends said she hasn’t had contact with the Hawkes family in a long time.“She never talked about them. She never even brought them up. That wasn't something that she talked about,” said Price.Friends said life had always been tough for Hawkes, who struggled to keep jobs and places to live.“Who she was, was a phenomenal, bright light human being,” said Acuna-Olvera. “She was such a caring person, a deeply caring person.”Monday’s fatal encounter with police wasn’t Hawkes first run-in with police.At 15, Hawkes got in trouble for possession of glue or aerosol spray and assault, threat or menacing conduct, according to the Albuquerque Journal. A few years later she faced attempted criminal sexual contact of a child under 13 and was convicted of a lesser battery offense.Hawkes turned 18 in 2012. As an adult she’d been charged with drinking in public and shoplifting.The officer who shot Hawkes is on administrative leave. APD has not released the officer’s name. PHOTOS: Mary Hawkes, teen killed by APD Monday

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —

Albuquerque police officers killed Mary Hawkes, 19, on Monday. Police said she pointed a gun at officers at closer range.

Friends said Hawkes was homeless and her parents died when she was a child. Those who knew her said she’s an example of a tragedy that can happen when youth don’t have certain resources available when they need them.

Hawkes had spent time in a Juvenile Detention Center, and friends said she wasn’t able to get the help she needed to get back on her feet and live on her own once she got out. They said she’d sleep in cars to try to survive.

“She meant a lot to everybody,” said friend Luchrisa Price. “Anybody that knew her knew she was a great person.”

Albuquerque Police Chief Gorden Eden said Hawkes was an auto theft suspect. Police said during a foot chase she pulled a gun on police.

At 15, Hawkes got in trouble for possession of glue or aerosol spray and assault, threat or menacing conduct, according to the Albuquerque Journal. A few years later she faced attempted criminal sexual contact of a child under 13 and was convicted of a lesser battery offense.

Hawkes turned 18 in 2012. As an adult she’d been charged with drinking in public and shoplifting.

The officer who shot Hawkes is on administrative leave. APD has not released the officer’s name.